shocked - Story 132280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in her inbox. "Welcome to the sales team!" she read. Her fingers tightened around the mouse. Sales? She had cultivated a quiet life in the library, surrounded by books and the hushed whispers of readers. Selling products? The thought itself made her queasy.

She let out a long, slow exhale. She felt suddenly, acutely aware of the blood pumping in her veins, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She looked around her desk at the stacks of books, her comfort, her sanctuary. She felt a knot forming in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. The world suddenly felt… different.

Emotion: shocked

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -2.19 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shocked. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shocked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shocked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shocked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`будто`	0.298
`😰`	0.268
`sickening`	0.266
`не`	0.266
`que`	0.257

Suppressed:

`enthusi`	-0.283
`开心`	-0.269
`ولة`	-0.262
`ارك`	-0.257
`উৎসাহিত`	-0.255